Critical Social Inquiry 0220 - Freedom Dreams

This course examines the rise, fall, destruction, and transformation of post-1960s U.S.-based liberation movements. Beginning with struggles for civil rights and black liberation, Native sovereignty, women's liberation, gay liberation, and anti-imperialism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the course traces the trajectory of movements for freedom from the late 1960s to our contemporary moment. In this reading-intensive course, students will work closely with primary documents, memoir, art, literature, and film to create their own creative final projects.

Power, Community and Social Justice Multiple Cultural Perspectives Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.